A Broken Rudder, a Fortified Lodge, and Buffalo That Will Not Move
1805-05-04The Rudder and the Late StartEvery narrator opens with the same delay. The red pirogue's…
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Analyses (22)
View allA Buffalo in the Camp: Two Sergeants Recount a Near Disaster on the Missouri
1805-05-29The journal entries for May 29, 1805, offer a rare opportunity to compare two enlisted-man…
A Cold Hunt Down River: Three Accounts of Clark’s Buffalo Search
1804-12-14The hunting expedition Captain William Clark led from Fort Mandan on December 14, 1804 produced…
A Wolf, a Map, and the Buffalo Dance: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1805-01-05The journal entries for January 5, 1805, present a divergence in the Fort Mandan winter…
Buffalo Heads, Stewed Fruit, and Considerable Corn: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1805-01-20January 20, 1805, at Fort Mandan. Three published journals in this corpus record the day:…
Buffalo Shoals and a Bear on a Rock: Three Voices on a Rainy Descent
1806-07-30The expedition was divided on 30 July 1806, with Lewis and Ordway descending one watercourse…
Buffalo-Hide Canoes and Quiet Omissions: Four Journals on the Arikara Hunting Camps
1804-10-15The entries for October 15, 1804, capture the Corps of Discovery moving upriver through a…
Counting Buffalo, Counting Game: Three Registers on the Approach to the Cannonball
1804-10-19The entries for October 19, 1804, offer an unusually clear case study in how three…
First Buffalo, Blowing Sand: Three Versions of a Day on the Missouri
1804-08-23The entries for August 23, 1804 mark a small but symbolically charged moment in the…
Five Hundred Buffalo and a Seep of Bitumen
1804-09-09A Day Measured in BuffaloThe 9th of September 1804 produced one of the expedition's first…
Forty-Three Below and a Promise of Buffalo
1804-12-17The entries for December 17, 1804 offer an unusually clean case study in how the…
Forty-Two Degrees Below Freezing: Three Accounts of a Buffalo Hunt
1804-12-08The buffalo hunt of December 8, 1804, generated three distinct journal accounts that, when read…
Ice, Rain, and Floating Buffalo: Three Voices at Fort Mandan on the Eve of Departure
1805-03-29The journal entries for 29 March 1805 capture Fort Mandan in a moment of suspended…
Lean Buffalo and Assiniboin Rafts: Four Views of a Fair-Wind Day
1805-04-17April 17, 1805 found the Corps making twenty-six miles under a fair wind on the…
Pitch, Poles, and Floating Buffalo: Final Preparations at Fort Mandan
1805-03-28On March 28, 1805, the Corps of Discovery stood on the edge of departure from…
The Big White’s Summons: Three Accounts of a Mandan Buffalo Chase
1804-12-07The arrival of Sheheke (Big White), principal chief of the lower Mandan village, at the…
The Iron-Frame Boat and the Buffalo Plain: Three Voices at the Great Falls Portage
1805-07-05The journal entries of July 5, 1805, written from the Great Falls Portage camp, illustrate…
Three Views from the Portage Camp: Boat, Buffalo, and a Borrowed Hypothesis
1805-07-03The journals for July 3, 1805, written from the Great Falls portage camp in present-day…
Twenty Thousand Buffalo and a Handful of Plums: Three Views from the Missouri
1806-08-29The journal entries of August 29, 1806 offer an unusually clear demonstration of how three…
Two Buffaloe and a Frozen Horizon: Three Voices at Fort Mandan
1804-12-13The entries for 13 December 1804 offer an unusually clean comparison of how three members…
Two Rivers, Two Captains: The Divided Corps on a Day of Buffalo and Beaver
1806-07-11By July 11, 1806, the Corps of Discovery had split into separate detachments to explore…
Wagons, Axletrees, and Drowning Buffalo: Two Views of the Great Falls Portage
1805-06-22June 22, 1805, in the Great Falls portage. Two published journals in this corpus record…
Art (3)
View allBlackfeet Burning Crow Buffalo Range
Charles M. Russell's "Blackfeet Burning Crow Buffalo Range" depicts a scene of intertribal warfare on…
The Buffalo Hunt
Russell's painting shows a group of mounted Plains Indian hunters in the midst of a…
The Silk Robe
Charles M. Russell's The Silk Robe shows a Plains Indian encampment scene centered on the…
